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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-02-25
First ins. Feb. 20; last March Is.
PROBATE NOTICE.

STATE OF MINNESOTA, County of Blu
- Earth-ss. In Probate Court.
In the matter of the estate of David M
Revenaugh, deceased.
On reading and filing the petition of Levi
Q. Taber, administrator of said estate, setting
come to his hands, and the disposition there
of; the amount of debts outstanding agains
said deceased, and description of all the rea
estate of which said decea 5ed died seized, ant
the condition and value of the respective Dor
tons thereof; and praying that license be t.
which said deceased died seized. And IL ap
pearing by said petition that there is not suf
icient personal estate in the hands of sale
administrators to pay said debts, and that 1t II
necessary in order TO pay the same, to sell o.
said real estate.
1t is therefore ordered that all persons inter
ested in said estate appear before the Judge
of this Court on the 9Th day of April, A. b
1887, at ten o'clock A. M, at the Probate Office
In the city of Mankato In said county, Their
and there to show cause LIZ any there bel why
license should not be granted to said admins.
prayer of said petition.
And 1t is further ordered that copy of this
order shall be published for four successive
weeks prior to said day of hearing, the last OF
which publications shall be at least fourteen
days before said day OF hearing, in the Mankato
FaEE PRESS, a weekly newspaper printed and
published at the city of Mankato in said couu-
ty, and personally served on all persons inter-
ested in said estate residing In said county at
least fourteen days before said day OF hearing
and upon all other persons interested accord
ing to law.
Dated at Mankato. the 18th day of February
A. d., 1887.
BY the Court,
@. w. MEAD,
Judge OF Probate of Blue Earth Co., MINI
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-02-25
NOTHING TOO BIG FOR MINNIE.
APOlIS.

Since the recent shaking up Of the CAPT.
toll building in st. Paul, followed by the
agitation Of selecting new site and
erecting thereon state house some
where near commensurate with the rap
id development and greatness of Minne-
sofa, Minneapolis has not been found
mapping. In fact Minneapolis Is never
asleep when there are any berries to be
plucked from her neighbours bushes.
Last week the Board of Trade selected
dozen Minneapolis citizens to meet
like or greater number of st. Paulites
TO discuss the feasibility Of locating the
proposed new state house in the suburbs
of st. Paul, where the former city might
share the honors and benefit Of the
buildings and patronage flowing there
from. To this st. Paul finally demurred.
And now Minneapolis comes forward,
offers ten acres of ground and proposes
to erect $2,0O0,OO0 structure free OF
cost to the state. A meeting of her
liberal capitalists was held Tuesday and
it was the work of but few moments to
secure pledges for this princely sum,
When men will come up and subscribe
a guarantee of Sc, 900 each, as several
did, it don't take great while to run q
subscription paper into the millions.
1t will behoove st. Paul to look well
to her laurels in this matter. She has
an army of wealth and liberal citizens
and if the capital of Minnesota is to &c
to the highest bidder. there is no time
to be lost by her people. The Country
towns" will look on with complaisance
and endeavor to maintain an indepen
dence that shall not prejudice actor
either way. All We want is substan
tial building, and this must come with
in short time.
LATER.-Since the above was put il
type Duluth offered $3.50, 900 for the
honor of being the capital city Of Mime
sofa. But the breath was taken out o
both Minneapolis and Duluth onWednes
day afternoon when the Ramsey county
delegation came forward in the legisla
ture with bill asking that st. Paul be au
thorized to issue bonds to the amount o
S., OOO, 600 for the building of a State cap
itol. 1t will now be in order for Mime
apolis to "see" st. Paul and go her on,
better.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-02-25
USEFUL INFORMATION.

We have just received from the pub
Usher a copy of the 1887 Edition of Conk
Inns Handy Manual of UusgfM Informa
ton, neat book of 2SS pages of closely
printed matter, absolutely teeming with
information on over 1900 subjects. II
contains million facts, also many tables
of practical value for every one in all
sorts of business, trades and professions.
1t is handsomely bound IN alligator,
with gold side stamp, and sprinkled
edges. The wonder to us is how the
book can be sold at the nominal price
asked for it. Its statistics are brought
down to date, and will be found correct
in every particular. Every one should
have copy. 1t will be mailed to any adj
dress on receipt of rs cents, bv Geo. w.
Ogilvie, Publisher, 2l6 Lake ST., Chicago,
III. Agents can make money selling it.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-02-25

In the interest of reform" State
Auditor Braden has recommended the
omission of the usual appropriations for
publishing the general laws. This Of
fetal, (Braden) draws 81, 800 salary year
ly from the State treasury. A compe-
tent man would jump at filling the Office
for 81 600 salary. If retrenchment is
what the Legislature is after they had
better cut Braden's salary down 81, 800.
In the meantime the entire press of
Minnesota will see that Braden is kept
in obscurity after his present term ex-
pires.
The above, from the Winebago City
Press Ne,rs, is very unkind, not to say
uncalled for, thrust at Capt. Braden. 1t
is well known by the editorial fraternity
that the question of publishing laws,
passed by the legislature, in the news
papers of the state has been one of fire.
quent discussion bv members of the leg
lsIature, and the expediency of annu-
ally or bi-annually expanding such a
large sum of money for this purpose has
been considered of doubtful policy by
other men than our State Auditor.
Whether Capt. BRAIDED recommended
the omission of the APPROXIMATION for
the publication of the laws or not is q
question that we know nothing about.
One thing We do know, however, and
that is, that under the too liberal provis-
ions of the law regulating this matter,
the state is robbed of thousands upon
thr,, nIo nf oil I.x,o
papers which will start up just in time
before the legislature convenes TO en-
title them to the publication of the laws,
when in fact they have no real existence,
no moral worth and no other motive for
their brief existence than the sapping
from the State Treasury of hundred or
more dollars. The encouragement
which our present law lends to such
piracy Is what should be stopped. The
FREE Press believes that the laws enact
ed by the legislature should be published
in the newspapers of the state. and it
believes the line should be drawn at leg
climate and respectable newspapers,
and expung from the list these innum-
cradle spasmodic, navose sheets which
are travesty upon journalism and a
disgrace upon the profession. As re-
CARDS State Auditor Braden, it is hardly
necessary to say that he is one of the
very best officials the state ever had and
one of the most popular men in Min
nesota. The Press-Neps could have sus-
tanned the law now in vogue requiring the
publication of the acts of a general char
acter passed by the legislature without
showing its ill-conceived nature toward
q worthy and honored official.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-02-25
Greatly Excited.

Not few citlzes of Mankato have re.
Gently become greatly excited over the
astounding facts, that several OF their
friends who had been pronounced by
by their physicians as incurable and be.
yond all hope-sufering with thai
dreaded monster Consumption-haye
been completely cured by DR.. Kings
New Discovery for Consumption, the
only remedy that does positively cure
all throat and lung diseases, Coughs,
Colds, Asthma and Bronchitis. Trial
bottle free at ]. R. Jones' Drug Store,
large bottles 81.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-02-25
MANKATO CITY

Theefty Of kankato has a population Of 1900 is
sitsated Sosthspsstern kinnesOta and iss1rrov~d
ed By ons Of the finest agricultural distriets IN the
STATE Has four railroads, vis: The C. N. d 81. p.
the C. d NM, the C. Sc. p. N. o., and the
kankato d Elnore. The State Normal School is
located here, and its Public Schools are dmong the
first inths NorthVest. For the superiority Of its
clay, brick, limestone, bHildiag stone, DC, Man
kato IS noted throughout the land. "a a point
for jobbine AND manufacturing IL has superior
ia the Northtpesf
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-02-25

PATENTS granted to citizens of Mime
sofa during the past week, and reported
expressly for the FREE Press by c. A.
Snow & Co., patent lawyers, Washin G.
ton, ID. c. +. A. Westcott, Minneapolis
Railway car guard. II. Price. Sank Rap
ids, Gage. n. W. Hawkenson, Litchfield
Measurer. A. J. Grafenstat, Minneapolis,
Soda motor. w. B. Cogger, Minneapolis,
Door hanger.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-02-25

IT is to be regretted by all true friends
of education that the Minnesota legisla-
ture cannot realize the great necessity OF
an appropriation for the enlargement OF
the Second State Normal School located
Ia Mankato. The requirements of this
school have been pointed out to the
finance committee, to whom the bill
asking for an appropriation of $50, 600
was referred, and there is little doubt
but the appropriation asked for by Wi
mona with which TO erect ladies' home,
had much to do with the committee's
recommendation to indefinitely post
pone. The Mankato Normal has an
attendance of fully a hundred pupils
in excess OF Winona, with a build
ing scarcely two-thirds as large. A
number of young people have been de-
MED admission to the school through
lack of room, and in other ways the in
stitution is held down, simply because
of the parsimonious action of the legis-
lature. These State educational institu-
tons are the property of the people,
and their usefulness should not be I'M
paired through lack of funds with
which to make them conform to all le-
climate demands. No portion of the
revenue derived by the State can be
more judiclously or worthily bestowed
than in fostering such grand institutions
of learning as the Normal Schools have
proved to be, and the people of South.
western Minnesota have right to com.
plain at the shabby treatment the Man.
kato Normal has received at the hands
of our lawmakers. All they ask is that
this school be granted equal favors with
Winona, and inasmuch as the attend.
ance is much larger, il does seem mex.
-cusable to deny just demand simply
because 1t was deemed inexpedient to
comply with the seeming avaricious de-
mands of other localities. 1t Is to bt
hoped that something may yet be done
to secure the appropriation necessary t.
meet the crying needs of the school.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-02-25

The Apportionment committee have
finally agreed upon bill to introduce
into the legislature. The plan of re-
apportionment makes the Senate com.
posed of 80 members and the House OF
ITO members. Under the provision Of
the bill Blue Earth County will be dis
trict No. 10 and will be entitled to one
senator and three REPRESENTATIVES.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-02-25

SINCE Col. King became the possesor
once more of his princely fortune, he Is
one of the busiest men in Minnesota.
The Colonel is one of the most generous,
public-spirited men in the Northwest,
and in the proposed capital removal is
exhibiting his whilom energy and en-
thusiasm. Minneapolis has a fortune in
Col. King IN more ways than one, and
her citizens appreciate the fact.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-02-25

AT recent city election in Philadel-
phia l52, 600 votes were polled, of which
the separate Prohibition candidates re-
ceived less than l ZOO. A Philadelphia
paper says the fact is convincing proof
that on a square issue between prohibit
ton and high license the people1prefer
the latter
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-02-25

THE Presidents veto of the bill for the
relief of the dependent soldiers, will
keep many of them in the poor house,
but they and their friends will find a way
in 1883 to make themselves effectively
heard in favor of liberal degree of ma
tional assistance for class of citizens
whose claims upon the country's graft
-teds are not tu10e disputed except from
want of personal sympathy, for the
cause they fought for and reasonable
pride in the glories which they helped
to achieve
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-02-25

The Minnesota legislature has no time
TO fool away if it shall complete its bust
ness before the date of adjournment
March 4th. There is no likelihood that
Gov. McGill will call an extra session to
compensate for the valuable time con-
sumed in useless debate,
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-02-25

MRS. LOGAN has been appointed ad-
ministratrix of the estate of her late
husband, Gen. Jno. A. Logan. The val
ue of the real property left by the Cen
eral is not given, but the personal prop
erty is valued at $4,000.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-02-25

CONRAD GOTHAM, one of the wealthiest
merchants and most highly respected
citizens of st. Paul, died Monday eve
ming. He was SO years of age, and set
tied in st. Paul in 1854.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-02-25

THE United States Senate has passed
the bill creating bureau of Agriculture
and Labor.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-02-25
First ms. Feb. 25; last April l
SUMMONS.
STATE OF MINNESOTA, County OF Blue
= Earth.--ss District Court, Sixth Judicial
district

STATE OF MINNESOTA, County OF Blue
- Earth.--ss District Court, Sixth Judicial
District.
Richard L. Houk, Plaintiff,
against
Levi HOuk, Mary j. Rogers, Harriet Palmer
Grin Palmer her husband, Martha WoOdman
and Albert e. Woodman her husband, Kate
Thompson and Samuel G. Thompson her hus-
band, Jessie Saxton and Cameron l.. Saxton
Der husband, Benjamin Turner, and Mary
Turner minor child of Fanny Turner, de-
ceased, Defendants.
The State of Minnesota to the above named
defendants
You are hereby summoned and required
to answer the complaint of the plaintiff in
the above entitled action which Is filed in
the office of the Clerk of the District Court OF
the Sixth Judicial District. in and for the coun.
ty OF Blue Earth. and State of Minnesota
and at the city of Mankato therein, and to
serve copy OF your answer to the said
complaint on the subscribers at their Office
in the city of MankatO in said county within
twenty days after the service of this sum.
mons upon you exclusive of the day OF such
service and If you fail to answer the said
complaint within the time aforesaid the plain.
TIFF In this action will apply to the Court for
the relief demanded in the complaint.
Dated Mankato, Mimi, January 20, 1887.
FREEMAN & PAU,
Plaintiffs Attorneys, Mankato. Mimi.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-02-25

you wish your watch carefully
repaired and cleaned, take it to
p. h. WISER.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-02-25

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
for any case of Catarrh that can not be
cured by taking Halls Catarrh Cure.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Proprietors
Toledo, o.
P. Stalls Catarrh Cure is taken in
ternaIiy, acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system. Price
70 cts. per bottle, sold by all Druggists,
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-02-25

SENATOR SHERMAN has resigned his pc
sition as presiding officer of the Senate,
to take effect tomorrow.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-02-25

The committee on finance of the SEN
ate reported favorably Wednesday on
the bill appropriating SIC, 900 for the re-
pair of the state capitol. Senator Burk-
hardt moved that the rules be suspen-
ded and the bill put upon its final pas.
age. This was defeated by a vote Of IL
to % and the bill sent to the committee
of the whole.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-02-25

Senator SIMPSONS boiler inspection
bill provides for three State inspectors,
to be appointed by the Governor, who
fifteen years experience. The fees for
inspection shall be S. each. All fees
collected by the inspectors are to be
evenly devided among them after ex-
penses are yard.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-02-25

The committee on State oil inspection
held a meeting at the State capitol We'd
nesday night to prepare report to sub
init to the house. The new bill pro-
vides for the inspection of every barrel
or package containing oil to be used for
poses, and provides penalty Of from
three to six months for nom performance
of such duty. The rate of inspection Is
made uniform at 20 cents a barrel.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-02-25

" HE nlsCOrlcal
- Sketches an d
Events in the Colo
nization of Ameri-
ca, and the Out
growth of Our
Country: contain
ing the Discovery
of America by Co
lumbus and other
Navigators; Land
ing OF the Pilgrims
and other colonies;
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-02-25

u. w. MEAD,
Judge of Probate of Blue Earth Co., MINI
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-12-24
A Hint to Foraker.

II Governor Foraker will pardon M
for frankly stating a most obvious
truth, we should like to remark, in Lam
guage which il plain, that tho OBJ
trusiveness upon the public attention
Of his private griefs and personal LAGER
atoms are becoming . tride, or. for the
matter Of that q good deal tiresome.
When he first went about up and
down, over and through the land,
whining and whimpering because. as
he tearfully said. lady, whose husband
he had in sundry and several public
places most grossly abused, in the Ian
guage of Billingsgate, his countrymen
tried to be sorry for him; but they can
not be sorry for him for ever, and they
would be rather pleased il he would
bind up his wounds and not stand for
ever at the street corners Of the coun-
try tearing them open and begging
svery body 20 see how sore and bloody
they are. -Phisads!phia Inqsirsr( Rep. J.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-12-24
ENoLAND's SOIL.
a Country Rloh In Valuable and Historical
Underground Relics.

a Country Rich In Valuable and Historical
Underground Relics.
The soil of England does not seem
to be worn out, to judge by the won-
derful verdure and the luxuriance of
vegetation. 1t contains . great museum
of geological specimens, and series of
historical strata which is among the
most instructive of human records.
do not pretend to much knowledge of
geology. The most interesting geolog-
ical objects in our New England that
can think of are the great boulders and
the scratched and smooth surface Of the
rocks; the fossil footprints in the valley
of the Connecticut; the trilobites found
at Quincy. But the readers of Hugh
Miller remember what variety of fos-
sis he found in the stratified rocks of
his little island. and the museums are
full Of just such objects. When il
comes to underground historical relics.
the poverty of New England as COM
pared with the wealth of Old England
is very striking. Stratum after stratum
carries the explorer through the relics
of successive invaders. After pass
ing through the characteristic
layers of different races, he
comes upon . Roman pavement, and
below this the weapons and ornaments
of tribe of ancient Britons. One can
not strike spade into the earth. in
Great Britain, without fair chance Of
some surprise in the form of Saxon
coin, or Celtic implement, or Roman
fibula- Nobody expects any such pleas
ing surprise in New England field.
One must be content with an indian
arrowhead or two, now and then pestle
and mortar, or q stone pipe. A top
dressing Of antiquity Is all he can look
for. The soil is not humanized enough
to be interesting; whereas in England
50 much Of it has been trodden by hu-
man feet. built ON in the form of human
habitations. nay, has been itself part
of preceding generations Of human
beings, that it is in kind of dumb
sympathy with those who tread its turf.
Perhaps it is not literally true that
One-half her soil has walked the rest
In poets, heroes, martyrs, sages;
but 80 many Of all these lie within il
that the whole mother islands campo
santo to all who can claim the same
blood as that which runs in the veins
Of her unweaned children. Oliucr Wen
dell Holmes. IN atlantic.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-12-24
PRACTICAL couRTsnIp.


You say you love me. Maybe 30
would not doubt your word;
But others before now, you know,
Have such sweet love vows heard
Who are not loved, now, as wives would
Be loved By those they wed.
You say you love me. Very good
But will you like my breads
You say you love me. You must know
Your words are sweet TO hear;
Like tender music, soft and low,
They charm my willing ear.
But II you would win all my heart,
Possess my very soul
Promise TO do husbands part
Swear you'll bring up the coal!
You say you love me. And you ask
II could love you too.
own twill be an easy task
II only you are true.
This, this alone stipulate,
It's all my hearts desire:
That may sleep till half-past eight,
And you shall build the fire.
-S0meruiils Journal
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-12-24
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